Yoshihiro Hanno
Composer, Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
Born in Osaka 22nd January 1968, Yoshihiro Hanno (半野喜弘) is an internationally renowned musician/composer whose field of work has been expanding from movie soundtracks to orchestral pieces, as well as electronics music. In 1997 he was highly acclaimed for his electronic music releases in Europe, which led him to move to his homebase to Paris since 2000.
His creation style, which is boundary-free for any genre has made him unique in the music scene. With his score for Hou Hsaio-Hsien film Flowers of Shanghai, which was highly praised as “discovery of a new talent of movie soundtracks”. HANNO has collaborated with leading Asian directors such as Jia Zhang-ke, Yu Lik Wai etc. He was nominated as best composer in Asian Film Award 2009. Also He composed his first orchestra piece called [WAKE] (2007) committed by 32. Winterthur Musikfestwochen in Switzerland. His subtle yet rich elegant music has gained a strong fan base and is constantly evolving. As HANNO says, “My music is a universal hymn to the primitive pain and pleasure of being human”, his sounds keep giving the audience sensational emotions.
His creation style, which is boundary-free for any genre has made him unique in the music scene. With his score for Hou Hsaio-Hsien film Flowers of Shanghai, which was highly praised as “discovery of a new talent of movie soundtracks”. HANNO has collaborated with leading Asian directors such as Jia Zhang-ke, Yu Lik Wai etc. He was nominated as best composer in Asian Film Award 2009. Also He composed his first orchestra piece called [WAKE] (2007) committed by 32. Winterthur Musikfestwochen in Switzerland. His subtle yet rich elegant music has gained a strong fan base and is constantly evolving. As HANNO says, “My music is a universal hymn to the primitive pain and pleasure of being human”, his sounds keep giving the audience sensational emotions.
Filmography
| 2026 | Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner · as Original Music Composer |
| 2024 | Locust · as Original Music Composer |
| 2023 | Revolver Lily · as Original Music Composer |
| 2023 | Why Try to Change Me Now · as Original Music Composer |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | Winter Boy · as Original Music Composer |
| 2020 | The Best Is Yet to Come · as Composer |
| 2020 | The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese · as Original Music Composer |
| 2019 | Hunt Down · as Original Music Composer |
| 2019 | Autumn Leaves · as Composer |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | Paradise Next · as Original Music Composer |
| 2018 | Hanalei Bay · as Original Music Composer |
| 2018 | My Friend 'A' · as Original Music Composer |
| 2018 | Call Boy · as Original Music Composer |
| 2017 | Vibration: The YELLOW MONKEY · as Original Music Composer |
| 2017 | Pigeon Tango · as Original Music Composer |
| 2017 | Dragonfly Eyes · as Original Music Composer |
| 2016 | Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow · as Original Music Composer |
| 2016 | Ame ni yureru onna · as Composer |
| 2015 | Pink and Gray · as Original Music Composer |
| 2015 | Mountains May Depart · as Original Music Composer |
| 2014 | Five Minutes to Tomorrow · as Composer |
| 2013 | Longing for the Rain · as Original Music Composer |
| 2011 | Blowfish · as Original Music Composer |
| 2009 | Taipei 24H · as Composer |
| 2008 | 24 City · as Original Music Composer |
| 2008 | Beautiful Crazy · as Original Music Composer |
| 2008 | Plastic City · as Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | |
| 2003 | All Tomorrow's Parties · as Original Music Composer |
| 2001 | Millennium Mambo · as Original Music Composer |
| 2000 | Platform · as Original Music Composer |
| 1998 | Flowers of Shanghai · as Original Music Composer |
| 2019 | Paradise Next · as Screenplay |
| 2016 | Ame ni yureru onna · as Screenplay |
| 2022 | Lightning Over the Beyond · as Original Story |